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Title: Consistency in naming: Is it bitAssets or BitAssets?
Post by: arhag on February 04, 2015, 06:21:37 am

I know this is a pretty minor issue but I would prefer to resolve it.

I have seen people using both versions. I would prefer if we were consistent with the capitalization in all official material. For example, bytemaster uses BitAssets and BitUSD, BitGold, etc. in his blog. The BitShares client also uses the capital B format. But the bitshares.org website uses bitAssets, bitUSD, bitGold, etc. (although there are some places where the website mistakenly uses the capital B format).

Personally, I prefer BitAssets, but whichever way the consensus goes is fine with me. I just want consistency.

Which capitalization do you prefer?

Title: Re: Consistency in naming: Is it bitAssets or BitAssets?
Post by: clout on February 04, 2015, 06:25:38 am

Capitalized B

Title: Re: Consistency in naming: Is it bitAssets or BitAssets?
Post by: onceuponatime on February 04, 2015, 06:30:15 am

Capital B

Title: Re: Consistency in naming: Is it bitAssets or BitAssets?
Post by: svk on February 04, 2015, 06:32:35 am

I much prefer bitAsset, looks much cleaner imo. I actually considered making a commit to change it in the wallet yesterday, but decided it wasn't really my decision to make.

Title: Re: Consistency in naming: Is it bitAssets or BitAssets?
Post by: fundomatic on February 04, 2015, 06:33:27 am

used capital B lately.

Title: Re: Consistency in naming: Is it bitAssets or BitAssets?
Post by: monsterer on February 04, 2015, 08:22:39 am

I like the camel case version because it emphasises the currency symbol.

Title: Re: Consistency in naming: Is it bitAssets or BitAssets?
Post by: svk on February 04, 2015, 08:35:35 am

@arhag Just a reminder that it should be BitGOLD or bitGOLD, all asset symbols are capitalized.

Slightly on-topic, I updated the web wallet asset creation name check yesterday to take into the latest rules:

• Asset symbols must be capitalized and 3-8 characters long
• A secondary symbol can be added after a "."
• The total length can be up to 12 characters
• "BIT" prefix is not allowed by the web wallet (not sure about the CLI)
• Example: Rune could've made CFS.GOLD, CFS.MXLENGTH etc, but would've needed to register CFS first at 500k BTS cost

Title: Re: Consistency in naming: Is it bitAssets or BitAssets?
Post by: arhag on February 06, 2015, 02:42:57 pm

Bump. Hoping to get more votes from the community on this.

Title: Re: Consistency in naming: Is it bitAssets or BitAssets?
Post by: yellowecho on February 06, 2015, 03:12:01 pm

I can't recall which user, but someone in another thread suggested "bUSD", "bGLD", etc. which works well too IMO.

Title: Re: Consistency in naming: Is it bitAssets or BitAssets?
Post by: cube on February 06, 2015, 03:42:45 pm

Capital B.

Title: Re: Consistency in naming: Is it bitAssets or BitAssets?
Post by: Rune on February 06, 2015, 04:55:39 pm

bitAssets - BXYZ

bitUSD - BUSD

bitGOLD - BGLD

IMO